10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSYLLABLE»
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Syntactic Development, Its Input and Output
Table 3.4 Distribution of verbs by origin and length, in the three corpora Parental
full-sized corpus Anglo-Saxon, monosyllable 430 48.21% 321,799 94.93% Anglo
-Saxon,polysyllable 109 12.22% 2,919 0.86% Latinate,monosyllable 132 ...
In one other case (21) the dactyl is divided among three words; this Menander
does freely (White op. cit. 149 and n. 1). The dactyl several times is contained in
one word: twice it forms the beginning of a polysyllable (21, 22), three times the
end ...
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The Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the Choral ...
That rule which creates phonetic combinations along with the final g of the
previous word doesn't apply when the first word is a polysyllable or even a
disyllable with a noncontinuous articulation. As an example: Kovtoog donoog [
konduztiokus] ...
Duane Richard Karna, 2012
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Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist
This is probably because his elegies often fall easily into quatrains, as those of
Gallus perhaps did;23 and quatrains seem to have constituted for Propertius a
standard unit of meaning. Propertius places a polysyllable in second position in
11 ...
5
Light or Darkness? A poem. With remarks on Lord Byron's ...
It has informed us more than once that hallucination is a polysyllable. In its last
notice of the Byron mystery, it called it a pompous polysyllable, and in a previous
notice a sonorous polysyllable, and in its next article it will probably christen it ...
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The London encyclopaedia: or, Universal dictionary of ...
POLYSYLLABLE, n. «. Fr. polysyllable , Gr. woXuc and ovWapti- A word of many
syllables. / In a polysyllable word consider to which syllable the emphasis is to be
given, and in each syllable to which letter. Holder. Your high nonsense blusters ...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
POLYSYLLABLE, n. t. Fr. polysyllable , Gr. iroXuc and <rvXXa/3i}. A word of many
syllables. In a polysyllable word consider to which syllable the emphasis is to be
given, and in each syllable to which letter. Holder. Your high nonsense blusters ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington), 1839
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
POLYSYLLABLE, n.s. [<«*« and » yxlir, ; polysyllable, Fr.] A word of many
syllable — Jii a polysyllable word consider to whie h syilab the empalis is to be
given. Holder. — Your hij nonseno. .blusters and makes a nuise ; it ilalk»u on
hard words ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1806
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Di3. {».)□• POLYSYLLABLE. n.s. f»«u* and ; polysyllable, Fr.] A word of many
syllables. — In a polysyllable word consider to which syllable the emphasis is to
be given. iAj/JWv— Your high nonsense blusters and makes a noise ; it stalks
upon ...
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A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the ...
Those plants are thuscalled, which have more than four feeds succeeding each
flower, and this w i'.houj any certain order or number !%nincy. POLYSYLLABICAL
. a. (from pilysyllahU) Having many syllables -, pertaining to a polysyllable. Via ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYSYLLABLE»
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The History of Our Most Obscene Polysyllable
but I gather that motherfucker, that “Oedipal polysyllable,” remains the most (least?) popular of all the so-called “obscenities.” The dirtiest of the ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
Sketch: Boris Johnson, Cage-fighter
He didn't grope donnishly for an amusingly abstruse polysyllable. Instead, he spoke cleanly and bluntly. Out the words flew, without possibility ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Taylor Swift “1989” Album Review
With that said, taking "1989" for what it is, the sound may be more sophisticated but Swift is still Swift, her polysyllable notes, her dicing take on ... «Hallels, Oct 14»
Mullered and 61 other words for beaten at sport
Sport lends itself to hyperbole, from the type of commentator who manages to turn "goal" into an extended polysyllable, to those who talk of the ... «BBC News, Jun 14»
DUPUY: How Not to Talk About Wealth Inequality
Oligarchy, plutocracy and demagogy: The holy trinity of sesquipedalian polysyllable liberal loquaciousness. 4.21dupuy This language liberals ... «Aurora Sentinel, Apr 14»
What other job lets you swear in front of your parents?
... abbreviated to 'MF' (Green calls it 'the Oedipal polysyllable'). 'Zip it' had its debut in The A-Team, T.E. Lawrence was the first to use 'fuckpig'. «Spectator.co.uk, Mar 14»
September 2011
His famous explosion against sandal-wearers, polysyllable-chewing Marxists, escaped Quakers and bearded men in shorts is supposed to ... «Daily Mail, Sep 11»
The Nazi regime had a perverted vision of German high culture …
Somewhere in the middle of a polysyllable which has too many “u”s and too many “l”s is buried the word “culture”, and this is the key to the ... «Financial Times, Feb 11»
Art, booze, and women: An interview with Roman Genn
Roman Genn: Are you in fact suggesting that the stalagmites of dried dreck garnished with polysyllable waffling are less profound than ... «Enter Stage Right, Jul 07»
